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by Cpoll 9y ago
I use that card for online shopping, where cash isn't an alternative. It's a fair point that exchange rates vary.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> This, incidentally, blows out of the water the argument made by some feminists that women don't do STEM because of conditioning in nasty patriarchal societies. I don't understand your logic here. Isn't the more natural c
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> It's nice to have one card as a backup, and some hardcore churners / points collectors are going to want 5 or 6 cards and use different cards for different categories... but they're real niches, it's not something t
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by Cpoll 10y ago
No, they are exactly the same. It's hard to find a GDC talk on Youtube where the creator of a game doesn't get teared up talking about the despair and elation they felt slaving over their game for four years. Try this one: https:
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Because in the United States, we should be working even while we are getting to work, because we don't work enough? No, because if you work-day was originally 8hrs of work + 2hrs of commute, it's now just 6hrs of work + 2hrs
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> But before you fly off the chain, prove your undeniable superiority, and prove that they are wrong, let me suggest instead that you do something crazy, that you do the opposite: that you prove they are right. I'm a bit uneasy abou
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by Cpoll 10y ago
It's not clear to me that they're "risking death." The article reveals that dolphins can be killed trying to eat octopus in a more conventional fashion, but I don't see any "risk" involved with their throw
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Sounds like Gabriel Knight 3's cat-fur-mustache puzzle. For those unfamiliar: You're trying to impersonate someone, so you use a convoluted trap to get some cat fur, which you use as a mustache. But the person you're imperson
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Is this a retcon-level waving away of a groaner That would be my guess, considering that it's a bit too hard-sci-fi of an explanation to fit in with the space opera writing of Star Wars. It doesn't really matter, I guess, bec
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Well put. I usually think of "The Big Bang Theory" as an example of this taken to the extreme. > The line is technically using the word correctly but you have to know 40 years of Star Wars lore to know why. That Han skirted clo
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by Cpoll 10y ago
It should have been obvious when there was no link for the ebook. > which keeps me in ketosis until I break my intermittent fast Also ruined the suspension of disbelief. I don't think you can enter and exit ketosis daily, in under 2
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by Cpoll 10y ago
"Maybe," replied the old man. The following day, a group of bandits came to the town and razed it, torturing the village folk. The farmer's young daughter had already passed in the night, and didn't experience the horror
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> each one carried the same malicious .doc file as an attachment (SHA256: 6b9af3290723f081e090cd29113c8755696dca88f06d072dd75bf5560ca9408e). This file contained embedded macro code that executed a commonly observed PowerShell command to
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with shorter lines. myDescriptiveResultVariable = myDescriptiveMethod(myWordy
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Alot of it has to do with the fact that when you view women as objects ... it can be very difficult for men like this to actually engage with an intelligent woman or have a meaningful intimate relationship. As a non-objectifier, I wond
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by Cpoll 10y ago
As someone who doesn't use Node: Do most of these arguments apply to Node? (Silent failures, callback hell, weak typing brokenness). I acknowledge that most of these are very bad in the browser, although I have good things to say about
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Aren't you committing an "argument from consequences"? The argument most people are making is that the TSA is security theatre, and they're not stopping any bad guys. I don't think anyone would argue if the TSA&#x27
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Expired in 2015 :) When I was younger, it seemed so obvious to add a minigame to a long loading screen, I had assumed that there were technical reasons for not doing it.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I didn't get anything autoplaying. Are you referring to the embedded YouTube video? I wonder if that's a flag in the embedded image, or just a browser quirk?
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Fair enough. There's selection bias on my end, and even then I can't find much fault. Thanks for keeping the gears oiled around here :)
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> On HN, commenters have a personal identity (which of course can be a pseudonym if you want). If some users want a site where there are no such identities, only free-floating comments with comment IDs, they should find or create such a
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I think you're the only consistent identity that I recognize, because you post this a lot :) I always have some concerns when I see it: - Obviously controversial (but not clearly trolling) posts like thr3290's can't be made w
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I think the community would be better served reverse-engineering it in this case. With self-taught single-person projects like these, there tends to be an inordinate amount of crazy code that only the creator has the experience to understan
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> I am glad that they have removed the "We do not guarantee the accuracy of the English translation of the original Japanese version of the exam" clause. What languages do they run the exam in? Do they accept a lot of foreign s
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Cold weather increases odds of catching a cold because it makes us more likely to stay indoors with other people, some of which may be sick and contagious. I'm not convinced that's the case these days. The average city-dwelle
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Since the time of your interview, we have changed the process of discussing compensation within the first 15 minutes of a conversation to the end of a phone call. Cynical read: We discovered people are more likely to compromise on the
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Isn't that selection bias? You wouldn't know about the authors that self-published and sold two copies.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> where an 85 year old man can carry a 40lb chest I wonder if you couldn't take it pretty far with a motorized contraption. You could also hire some help that you're reasonably sure isn't experienced in mountaineering, and
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Maybe they were thinking "aeronat" :) (Nat- being a Latin prefix for "born", see "natal")
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I think he means that "why would you?" is not good legal advice. I mean, I agree with you in principle, but I can imagine some backwater judge deciding that Alice Techie was violating the privacy of Bob D. Luddite by accepting ema

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